Slippage
An order filling at a price different from the one requested. It increases around news and in low liquidity.
Market orders and triggered stop orders are exposed to slippage; limit orders never fill at a price worse than the one you set, but they may not fill at all.
Going live without building realistic slippage and spread costs into backtest results is the most common reason a strategy's performance gets overstated.
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